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New York (State). Military Training Commission

 

 

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This series contains general administrative records of the Military Training Commission, including enrollments of boys, related correspondence, and documentation of cooperation with federal efforts to increase the labor pool of farm workers which had been depleted by service in World War I. Also included .........

 

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...Archives New York (State). Military Training Commission...
...Military Training Commission accessioned from the New York State...
...New York State had to enroll with the Military Training Commission....

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Defense Council

 

 

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This series consists of copies of legislation, organizational charts, requisitions, memoranda, informational circulars, reports, bulletins, minutes, and some correspondence relating to the organization and administration of the New York State Defense Council's war work. Consistent with the council's .........

 

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...New York as the lopsided leader in that category; memoranda circulated to chairs of county home defense committees by the council; minutes of proceedings of a council meeting (March 28, 1918); reports on such topics as military training, aliens, work of the State Food Supply Commission...

 

 

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New York State Archives

 

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New York State Defense Council

 

 

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The series consists of correspondence files, maintained by Assistant Secretary Frederic E. Foster, relating to general information and functions of the State Defense Council. The bulk of the records consist of of correspondence with civilian relief organizations, patriotic societies, emergency industrial .........

 

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...New York Public Library; pamphlets, bulletins, and copies of addresses or appeals by such groups as the League to Enforce Peace (including its platform), the New York Peace Society, and the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief; a press edition of the "War Information Series" published by the Committee on Public Information in Washington, D.C. ; correspondence between the council and the Charity Organization Society of New York regarding the requirements necessary for inclusion of war relief organizations in bulletins of "Approved War Relief Organizations" produced jointly by the council and the society (copies of the listing also included); messages from the U.S. War Department, including its Commission on Training Camp Activities (on developing community councils), the Office of the Chief Military Censor (on photographing of production plants), and the U.S. Surgeon General (on building a convalescent home, data on disease conditions among troops in the U.S. , and a syllabus to instruct "Drafted Men in the Knowledge and Avoidance of Venereal Diseases"); correspondence from Governor Whitman (to exemption boards on diagnosing tuberculous recruits) and gubernatorial proclamations (on public productivity, support for the Liberty Loan program, and fire and waste prevention during wartime); and copies of President Wilson's war message (April 2, 1917), his reply ("America's Terms of Peace") to Pope Benedict XV's peace note (August 28, 1917), proclamations (on licensure of commodities, Liberty Day, manufacture of explosives, regulation of wartime exports and imports, the state...

 

 

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New York State Archives